Eventually, Hitler's foundation ideaologicaly centred on the establishment of the "Aryan Race", He concluded that not all "races" were equal and in essence there was an unchangeable natural order, which engrimiation and thus intermarriage brought about.
True Biography. While Jews were primarily the targets, other groups considered 'racial inferior' were Roma (gypsies), people with disabilities and a number of Slavic groups including Poles and Russians.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum In the later part of his rise to power he particularly became anti-Jewish which gave rise to World War II and the Holocaust. In which was estimated 6 million Jews and 'other ethnic groups' were murdered.
Hitler's rise to power and formation of the National Society of German Worker's part or the Nazi Party as they became known was founded on noble principles as the sort for the rights of the German people and in essence an attempt to offer another resistance to capitalism by offering another alternative to communism which already had strong holds in the former
Soviet Block Countries. What went wrong is the humane need for power and acculmation wealth are not selective to the capitalist principles.
Hitler and his party fell into the trap of believing they belong to a superior race, like the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans before them.
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Mother Teresa
The are others in the world like Mother Teresa that have influence the world and started to promote world change by the virtues they lived. The did not start a political party, idealology or a religious movement. The simply seek to treat others as they themselves would expected to be treated.
Humanitarianism is an act of kindness, benevolence or meeting someone at their point of need; that is extended universally to all humans regardless of their race, gene, age, religion, sexual preferences or nationality. (
Wikipedia)
Although Mother Teresa founded a religious order called the
Missionaries Of Charity, under the auphises of the Roman Catholic Church she did not like someone like Buddha or Jesus Christ start a new world religion. Of course as a devoted follower of Jesus the values of her "Christian Faith" underpin her life and work ethic. (
Nobel Prize Winner Mother Teresa). Mother Teresa is perhaps most widely known for her work on the streets of Calcutta in India believe God had called her to minister to the
poorest of poor. Her work begin buy teaching children is the slums, a role she was well suited having come from a disadvantaged background and being a trained teacher. However, at the heart of the Missionaries of Charity call was meeting the most basic of human needs food, clothing, shelter and medical assistance.
She described herself as,
"God's pencil - a tin bit of pencil which he writes with what he likes." (
American Catholic)
Mother Teresa gave herself to the task of keeping individuals alive rather than tackling the problem of poverty itself. (See
Wikipedia)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Was an pre-eminent political figure involve in the civil rights movement in both his native home land of India and South Africa. He later was appointed to a leadership position in the Indian National Congress. Gandhi was known for his campaigns to ease poverty, gain equal rights for women, building religious and ethnic amity, ending the untouchable cast system, increasing economic self-reliance and thus ending foreign dominance in India and thus gain India's Independence. (
Wikipedia)
Gandhi was born in to a noble or upper cast in the Indian cast system with the "untouchables" also known as the
serfs in South Africa, being at the bottom of this cast system and having almost no humanian rights in society at all. He for himself disturbed by the cast system in India and sort to dismantle its influence on society.
His personal philosophy was sort from a position of non-violence, choosing to live modesty and dress in traditional Indian dhoti. Wikipedia Although not a Christian it was Christ's Sermon on the Mount that began to shape Gandhi's philosophy. "Whosoever shall smite the on thy right cheek turn to him the other also. And if any man takes away thy coat let him have thy cloak too." (The Progress Report) Gandhi's however found himself at odds with many other bible texts. His personal philosophies were drawn from a number of world religions, in addition to Christianity, including Muslim and Jewish.
"I can't hope to bring about economic equality . . . I have to reduce myself to the level of the poorest of the poor." (South Africa Venues)
